Gangs and gang behaviour has become a general debate. However, when asked to describe a “gang” and its characteristic, most people would struggle to give an agreed definition on what constitutes a gang. In spite of this, the beginning of this book gave us a history of the “new” gangs of London. This book refers to them as the “New” gangs because as we have seen gangs are not a new phenomenon, but are deep rooted in our history.
In establishing a definition, of who should be referred to as a gang, it can be asked, Should a group of young men, standing under a street light on a dark winter 's night, wearing hoodie’s pulled far down over their heads, displaying boisterous behaviour be classed as, or referred to as a gang? In order to …show more content…
It was also maintained that Gangs, youth gangs and street gangs are terms widely and often interchangeably used in mainstream …show more content…
Pitts (2008 p3) notes that in 2003, young black people under the age of 20 constituted 16 per cent of victims of gun crime investigated by Operation Trident. Operation Trident, is the specialist unit, within the Metropolitan Police department responsible for investigating black-on-black crime. Furthermore, by 2006 this number had risen substantially to 31 per cent.
Metropolitan Police (BBC London, 2007) further testified that gangs are responsible for more than a fifth of youth crime in London, with nearly half of the London gangs having been involved in serious assault.
In support of Tony Blair’s statement (as above mentioned) the “Police hold black men responsible for more than two-thirds of shootings and more than half of robberies and street crimes in London”, this was according to figures released by Scotland Garden in 2010 (Camber 2010). In further confirmation of this a police figure for the Met Police proclaimed that “the majority of violent inner-city crime is committed by black men” (Camber, R 2010). The statement further went on to acknowledge, statistics also show, black men are twice as likely to be victims of such
In establishing a definition, of who should be referred to as a gang, it can be asked, Should a group of young men, standing under a street light on a dark winter 's night, wearing hoodie’s pulled far down over their heads, displaying boisterous behaviour be classed as, or referred to as a gang? In order to …show more content…
It was also maintained that Gangs, youth gangs and street gangs are terms widely and often interchangeably used in mainstream …show more content…
Pitts (2008 p3) notes that in 2003, young black people under the age of 20 constituted 16 per cent of victims of gun crime investigated by Operation Trident. Operation Trident, is the specialist unit, within the Metropolitan Police department responsible for investigating black-on-black crime. Furthermore, by 2006 this number had risen substantially to 31 per cent.
Metropolitan Police (BBC London, 2007) further testified that gangs are responsible for more than a fifth of youth crime in London, with nearly half of the London gangs having been involved in serious assault.
In support of Tony Blair’s statement (as above mentioned) the “Police hold black men responsible for more than two-thirds of shootings and more than half of robberies and street crimes in London”, this was according to figures released by Scotland Garden in 2010 (Camber 2010). In further confirmation of this a police figure for the Met Police proclaimed that “the majority of violent inner-city crime is committed by black men” (Camber, R 2010). The statement further went on to acknowledge, statistics also show, black men are twice as likely to be victims of such